Monday, February 29, 2016

Gotta Love the Sabbath Day

Yes. I'm training a new elder. Elder R** (pronounced ***) from south Brazil! I'd send you a picture but unfortunately I left
my camera cord in the pension. oops. Haha I didn't know that the mission
notified the parents of the assignments we receive. Honestly I was
thinking about not even mentioning it ;) Well, if you already know that, I
should probably mention that I'm also a District Leader.

That's the biggest thing that happened this week. After that NOTHING went according to plan.

On
Thursday we went down to the plan (downtown Valpo. It's called the plan
because, well, it's plano (flat) Ya, the creativity of the name shocks
me) to buy some food for Elder R**. First we had to take out money. Ya,
we searched for a bank for about half an hour because the grocery store ATM is now not accepting our cards for some reason. Last time I took out
money was over a month ago and I did it on the other side of the plan.
While looking for a place to take out money, we ran into the 2nd Counselor
of Huanhualí!!! I talked with him quickly about the ward. Apparently
Elder Bednar went to V.A.O. to preside over the stake conference there. And
guess who gave the final prayer? Hna M**!! The mom of the
family I helped activate there!!! She's also in the RS Pres now!!! YES!
In the end we took out money in another grocery store and returned to
the other. Yes, doesn't seem to make sense why we wouldn't just buy food
there. The other grocery store is cheaper. Simple answer.

The
next day, Friday, we had interchanges. I obviously stayed in my sector
because Elder R** still doesn't know it. In the morning, a random lady
knocks on our door asking for the bishop's number. Apparently her brother
had committed suicide and she wanted to have the funeral that day in the chapel
because the Catholic church doesn't allow funerals of people who commit
suicide. Also, turns out that the guy was an inactive member from
Santiago. Long story short, Elder G** accidentally took the church
keys with him to his new sector so we didn't have them and while I was
talking to the bishop we were leaving the pension and in the commotion
of the conversation I forgot our keys inside. Without the keys we can't
get in because the door automatically locks. Great. First time I've ever
left without the keys and it just happens to be when I start
training... So we go and change comps then head over to our mission
leader's house because he has an extra key. We eat lunch with him and
then return to the pension to grab the extra church keys we have BUT
they don't have the key to turn off the alarm. We met up with the bishop
to open the church because he misplaced his keys to open the church but
had the key to the alarm. Haha funny how that worked out. In the end
they had the viewing and the funeral and everyone rejected us. We tried
talking about the plan of salvation to people but they were all die-hard Ccatholics. Oh well, we tried.

Saturday we had
District Meeting. Haha the new sisters got lost in my sector so we had
to go out to find them. We ended up starting over 30 mins late.

Yesterday was actually a great day. Nothing went wrong. Gotta love the Sabbath Day.

In between
all of that we taught and found new investigators (FINALLY!). Oh! I
almost just forgot. On Friday I was told that I had to give a talk on
Sunday. Apparently Elder G** forgot to tell me. At least I had some
time to prepare.

In the end, everything is all good. The Church is true, so no matter what happens it's all going to work out in the end.

So
ya, that was the random happenings of the week. Please try not get mad
at the cotton swab when you stab your eardrum as you are using it. The
box did warn you....